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TIL that every year, a wild penguin has been returning to visit the human who rescued him

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VB4N8 TIL that in the Sundarbans mangrove swamps of Bangladesh and India, tigers kill up to fifty people a year, and the widows of men killed by tigers face cultural and religious ostracization, and are viewed as bad omens. Many are excluded from society to the point of having their children taken away.
PYQ6V TIL in 1719 prisoners in Paris were offered freedom at the condition they would marry a prostitute and move to Louisiana.
K9G TIL Several astronauts after being on space walks have said space smells a little like a mix of “seared steak, piping-hot metal and arc welding smoke.”
bEZa TIL Marty Feldman, who played Igor in “Young Frankenstein,” clandestinely moved his hump from side to side during filming for several days until someone noticed it. It was then added to the script and made into a recurring gag.
4XvVN TIL "Night Witches" were women that flew under the cover of darkness in bare-boned plywood biplanes to bomb the Nazis during WW2.